Rajnath Singh the Union Home Minister has arrived in Pakistan to attend the Saarc ministerial conference, amid which protests against his visit has started.
The agitations had included a march by Syed Salahuddin the Hizbul Mujahideen supreme commander and various other militants on the streets of the Pakistani capital.
It is expected that the Minister would touch the issues which are pertaining Dawood Ibrahim, the Pathankot attacks and the 26/11 attacks.
While both the countries have ruled out the possibility of the bi lateral talks, the government sources expect Singh and Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, his counterpart, to further exchange views in the backdrop of the multilateral conference which is to be on Thursday.
Rajnath Singh in Pakistan
However, Singh, observers believe, that he would use the opportunity to take on Pakistan over the Kashmir issue and further proclaim the trouble in the valley as one of the India’s internal matter, a claim strongly made earlier by the foreign minister Sushma Swaraj.
The home minister is one the first high-level Indian official who has been visiting Pakistan since PM Modi’s surprise visit to Lahore earlier last December.
Moreover, Singh’s arrival was also preceded by protests in Islamabad’s Faizabad area and Murree Road, with the Hurriyat Conference, which had organised the rally, blaming that India is responsible for the unrest in Kashmir.
Later, the members of civil society and some other religious parties, while displaying banners and placards, and gathered outside the hotel where the home minister is staying. They also chanted anti-India slogans over the killing of Burhan Wani and the ongoing unrest which ensued in the region.
